The essence of leadership is to get others to do something because they think you want it done and because they know it is worth while doing -- that … - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.

I would be prepared to submit to the Congress of the United States, and with every expectation of approval, any such plan that would, first, encourage world-wide investigation into the most effective peacetime uses of fissionable material, and with the certainty that the investigators had all the material needed for the conducting of all experiments that were appropriate; second, begin to diminish the potential destructive power of the world's atomic stockpiles; third, allow all peoples of all nations to see that, in this enlightened age, the great Powers of the earth, both of the East and of the West, are interested in human aspirations first rather than in building up the armaments of war; fourth, open up a new channel for peaceful discussion and initiative at least a new approach to the many difficult problems that must be solved in both private and public conversations if the world is to shake off the inertia imposed by fear and is to make positive progress towards peace.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.. Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.